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PhenoSwiss: Monitoring Land Surface Phenology over Switzerland using the Swiss Data Cube satellite Earth Observations time-series

by sdcadminUncategorized August 16, 2019No Comments

We have received the good news that the project “PhenoSwiss: Monitoring Land Surface Phenology over Switzerland using the Swiss Data Cube satellite Earth Observations time-seriess” has been accepted. This project jointly lead by UNIGE/GRID (Dr. Gregory Giuliani) & UZH/RSL (Dr. Claudia Röösli) is supported by the UNIGE-UZH Joint Seed Funding. Since mid-December 2017 the University of …

Four scientific institutions will monitor Switzerland from space

by sdcadminUncategorized June 6, 2019June 7, 2019No Comments

The Swiss Data Cube (SDC) is an innovative technology that gathers all available satellite images from the American Landsat program and the European Sentinel 1 and 2. UNEP/GRID-Geneva, the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the University of Zurich (UZH) and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) have ente- red a new …

6-month Postdoc position at University of Geneva

by sdcadminUncategorized May 22, 2019May 23, 2019No Comments

Are you an Environmental/Land Change specialist, Remote Sensing specialist, computer scientist or data scientist with Remote Sensing skills? Do you thrive in an interdisciplinary environment? Are you excited to explore new research areas at the interface of Environmental and Computer Sciences? Are you a proactive learner with a computational background? If so, this Postdoc position …

Swiss Data Cube – upgrade

by sdcadminUncategorized December 20, 2018No Comments

We are pleased to announce that the Swiss Data Cube has been upgraded with the latest software development made available by the Open Data Cube community. This brings new functionalities and notebooks as well as bug fixes and code improvements. The list of new features is available on the ODC GitHub. This is a first …

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First Sentinel-1 Analysis Ready Data ingested

by sdcadminUncategorized December 5, 2018December 5, 2018No Comments

The first Sentinel-1 Analysis Ready Data have been successfully ingested in the test version of the Swiss Data Cube. By early 2019, the entire Sentinel-1 archive (starting from 2014) will be available on the production server, and continuously updated. This work is done under an active collaboration with Dr. David Small of the University of …

Drought impact on Lac des Brenets

by sdcadminUncategorized October 22, 2018October 22, 2018No Comments

Switzerland is currently knowing one of its most important drought of the last 40 years. Prolonged heat and dryness conditions during late spring, summer, and early autumn of 2018 has led to drought in most European countries (see). Different lakes in Switzerland are suffering from water shortages and their water levels are declining. This is …

Scientific collaboration with WSL & UZH

by sdcadminUncategorized October 17, 2018October 22, 2018No Comments

On October 15, we had a meeting with the University of Zurich/Remote Sensing Laboratories (UZH/RSL), with David Small and Michael Schaepman, to define Sentinel-1 Analysis Ready Data. Two UNIGE/GRID team members will go to Zurich in early November to discuss and initiate S1 data ingestion. On October 16-17, we had the visit of Charlotte Steinmeier, …

ADC4SD: Supporting Armenia in Building the Armenian Data Cube

by sdcadminUncategorized September 28, 2018September 28, 2018No Comments

The Swiss Data Cube team has recently received a grant to support Armenian colleagues from the Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies (CENS) and the Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems (IIAP) of the National Academy of Sciences in developing the first version of an Armenian Data Cube. The project is entitled “ADC4SD: Armenian Data Cube for …

Special Issue on “Earth Observation Data Cubes” – Call for Papers

by sdcadminUncategorized September 24, 2018September 24, 2018No Comments

Dear colleagues, Remotely sensed Earth Observations (EO) data have already exceeded the petabyte-scale and are increasingly freely and openly available from different data holdings. This poses a certain number of issues in terms of volume (e.g., data volumes have increased 10x in the last 5 years); velocity (e.g., Sentinel-2 is capturing a new image of …

Snow Cover Change in Switzerland

by sdcadminUncategorized September 12, 2018No Comments

Today during the EuroGEOSS workshop plenary we were pleased to present the first national product generated with the Swiss Data Cube. We used 22 years of Landsat observations over the entire Switzerland to track snow cover changes using the Snow Observations from Space algorithm. We observed that in Switzerland, snow is disappearing and this phenomenon …